Partridge Preferences That Too Popular Word, Ecology, As...
naturalists, has been oddly illustrated by some sportsmen's experiences. The French partridge which is a rarity in a good many districts has exhibited this year more remarkably......
In The Garden
The habit of trussing both hay and straw has much increased of late. Such trusses are easily procurable and have surprising uses. They make, for example, excellent walls. I have......
And/or Or And Or Or Or Both
Sta,—You have in your columns so often exposed or derided the grosser forms of modern English usage that it is a matter for regret that your contributor Janus should have......
" Poems - Of John Kea'i's "
Srn,—In The Spectator of December 31st you reviewed a selection of Keats's poetry chosen by me and published by Messrs...Peter Nevin, Ltd. It might easily , be thought from the......
Knowing English
SIR, —In A Spectator's 'Notebook Janus asks what Mr. Churchill meant by " knowing English " when he wrote: " I would whip boys for not knowing English." He explains what he......
Routed.. Sparrows
We all know that spraying produces many other effects than those directly intended. One spray may, for example, lull bees and another first damage and then benefit the orchard......
Country Life
THE inmates bf a Gloucestershire farmhouse have been much interested in the daily observation of that seasonable appearance, a snowy robin. The colour is uniform, except for a......
Offensive Mines
Corresponding to the remarkable increase in• local and county literature —as recently in the shires of Bedford, Leicester, Rutland and Herts- is the formation of defence......
Tankard's Close
Sta,—There is a spot in Bristol known as Tankard's Close. The university has begun to put up buildings on it ; this has raised much feeling in the neighbourhood, but, as it......
"some Trust In - Chariots "
Sut,—With due deference to Robert Kee as a reviewer (The Spectator, January 7th) he will find if he re-reads Some Trust in Chariots that - Rhys Tewdwr is the uncle of Harry......
University Awards
Sm,—Mr. Alban J. L. Bacon overstates his taxation liability by approxi- mately £175 (assuming the allowances due to a married man with child receiving full-time education). But......
Which Pitt' ?
Sta,—In the answers to your Christmas CoMpetition questions you attribute " The atrocious crime of being a young man I shall attempt neither to palliate nor deny " to William......
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